The phrase "adequacy of items" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the sufficiency or appropriateness of certain items in a specific context, such as in evaluations or assessments.
Example: "The adequacy of items in the survey was evaluated to ensure that they effectively captured the participants' opinions."
Alternatives: "sufficiency of items" or "appropriateness of items".
4) We discussed with the medical staff about the adequacy of the items and when all items were completely clarified between the translators and the medical staff the translation procedure was completed.
From their responses, we calculated content validity index (CVI) scores (Waltz, Strickland, & Lenz, 1991), obtaining average values higher than 80% for all items, which provides support for the theoretical-conceptual adequacy of the items as measures of their respective target factors.
Nevertheless, the results from Study 2 can shed some light over the adequacy of SIQ items in Brazilian Portuguese.
The results support the adequacy of the items used to measure the four systems, with factor loadings ranging from.31 to.75, supporting the content hypothesis.
In successive rounds, our panelists received the complete questionnaire together with a scale on which they had to assess the degree of adequacy of the items and dimensions proposed (1 = not adequate; 2 = hardly adequate; 3 = adequate; 4 = quite adequate; 5 = totally adequate).
The internal consistency and adequacy of these items was also computed using Cronbach's alpha and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin tests.
The internal consistency and adequacy of such items were computed using Cronbach's alpha [ 15] and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test [ 16].
By using SPSS 17.0 software, the EFA was conducted to further analyze the adequacy of scale items and to confirm the dimensional structure statistically.
These outcomes were selected because they, respectively, reflect: the acceptability and relevance to patients of the questionnaire as a whole, the respondent's burden, the adequacy of the items and ease of finding a suitable answer, and the ability to discriminate a high level of performance.
